BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
1888. | 
lata are well set off against the pianktely parted leaves, 
merely acute or but slightly pointed teeth and bractlets, pur- 
ple flowers, densely prickly fruit, and broadly concave cen- 
trally ridged seed-face of S. bipinnatifida. Nevin and Lyon, 
in their exploration of San Clemente Island (off S. Califor- 
nia), collected S. laciniata with a ont ns fruit, but i in mabe 
other eee pres typica : 
aides rather sharply cut and se uthee: the teeth mucrona’ e- 
tipped: umbels unequally few-rayed, with involucre of a afew. 
leaf-like bracts, and involucels of very conspicuous bractl 
sometimes much exceeding the la arge globose heads of f 
flowers yellow: fruit short-pedicellate, prickly all over, 1 
2 lines long; oil-tubes irregular in number and distributio 
seed-face concav e.—Sandy shores, Tilamook Bay and Ocean — 
Beach, Oregon, faly ee 1882 Bese 16, Henderson 1584) 
to appear fringed, its fruit naked at base, and 1 teal 
plane seed- face, are ae more marked characters which sgh 
to oe it ‘dis S. Howellit, 
ected by Cooper, Howell and Henderson, having been 
covered. by Professor Macoun in Vancouver Islane in I 
Pimpinella apiodora Gray, of the Pacific slope, is a great 
desideratum in herbaria. It seems to be widely distributed 
enough, but very rarely collected.- eee of it are v 
much desired by the writers. 
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